Chain coupling for cars.



N. D. SCOTT.

Patented M.2Lr.23,1915.

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ATTO R N EY TED STATES PATENT @FFIQEFL NATHAN SCOTT, OF DESHLER, OH IO.

CHAIN cournme FOR CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mal. 1915.

Application filed February 21, 1913. SerialNo. 749,939.

vfor cars, and to provide a simple, eflicient and comparatively inexpensive chain coupling of great strength and durability, designed in event of the pulling out of the draw bar or the breakage of the same to connect the disabled car with the draw head of another car, and adapted to be readily secured to the truck or other portion of the disabled car, and capable of afi'ording a close connection and of thereby reducing to a minimum the danger of the breakage of the chain coupling.

A further object of the invention is to provide a chain coupling of this character adapted to be readily carried and easily .handled, and equipped with means for repairing the chain, which is connected with the disabled car should such chain become broken.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claim, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a chain coupling, constructed in accordance with this invention, and shown applied to two cars. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the chain pipe coupling, the members thereof being separated.

, Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing in WhlCh 1s illustrated the preferred embodiment of. the invention, the chain coupling comprises two separate members or portions, adapted to be carried and handled separately, thereby 0binv viating the labor and inconvenience of carrying the long exceedingly heavy chain and applying the same to the cars to be coupled One of the members of the chain couplmgcomprises a coupling link 1 adapted to be secured in the draw head 2 of a car 3 by a coupling pin 41, and connected with two short chains 5, which are linked at one end into the coupling link 1 and equipped at the other end with hooks 6; The other member 7 of the coupling chain consists of a single continuous chain, adapted to be looped around the truck or other portion of a disabled car8, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing, and its side portions, which extend outwardly in the direction ofthe car 3, are adapted to be engaged by the hooks 6.

The hooks 6 have narrow openlngs between the bills and the shanks, and the links of the chains 7 are preferably arranged in planes at right angles to each other, so that when a link is placed edgewise in one of the hooks 6, the. adjacent link will form a stop or abutment for engagingwith such hook. The chains 7 may be of any preferred construction, and the hooks 6 may engage the links in any desired manner. By means of the hooks 6 of the relatively short chains 5 and the long chains 7 a disabled car may be coupled as tight and as closely as desired to another car, so that there will be no excessive slack, and the danger of the breakage of the chain is thereby reduced to a minimum.

In order to enable the relatively long chain 7 to be easily and quickly repaired in event of breakage, it is equipped at one end with a hook 9, adapted, should the chair.- 7 become broken, to be connected or engaged with the part broken off by placing one of the links thereof in the opening between the bill of the hook 9 and the shank of the same.

What is claimed is A chain coupling comprising a coupling link adapted to be secured in the draw head of a car coupling, a pair of chains, each linked at one end into the coupling link and provided at the other end with a hook, said chains being relatively short so as to clear the track when inv a hanging position, and a separate relatively long chain de signed to be looped around a truck or other portion of a disabled car and adapted to as closely as desired With all of the slack eliminated from the chains and with a uniform strain on the short chains and both sides of the looped relatively long chain said long and short chains being adapted to r be handled and carried separately and the hooks of the short chains being both located adjacent to the ends of the connected cars at the space between the end trucks of the same to permit ready uncoupling of the cars, and a repair hook linked into one end of the long chain and constituting a perma- Coptes of this patent may be obtained for nent portion of the same and adapted in event of breakage of the long chain to engage With the broken portion to provide a quick repair Without materially shortening such relatively long chain.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signa ture in the presence of tWo Witnesses NATHAN D. SCOTT.

Witnesses:

F. J. HOUSE, J. M. MEYERS.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, I). C. 

